# Anna Barber

> Anna Barber is a Hudson Institute-certified executive coach based in New York City. She coaches founders, venture investors, and senior leaders facing decisions that don't have clean answers, and leads Meridian Circle, a six-month peer coaching group for senior women making career pivots. She is a former founder and CEO, a former venture investor (M13, Techstars LA, Everywhere Ventures), and a current board director.

Anna has been a founder and CEO, an operator, a venture investor who backed more than 100 companies, and a board member. She is no longer investing; she works full time as an executive coach and board director. She coaches clients 1:1, runs peer coaching groups, and works with leadership teams, in person in New York and by video anywhere.

Who she coaches:
- Startup founders and CEOs: raising money or not, selling or winding down, stepping into or out of the CEO role, co-founder and board dynamics, growing into the leader the company needs next
- Venture capitalists and investors: partnership dynamics, career moves, the pressure of the role
- Executives in career transition, including senior women over 50 making a career pivot

Credentials: Hudson Institute-certified executive coach (2017). BA and JD, Yale. Former corporate lawyer and McKinsey consultant. Founder and CEO of Scribble Press. Forbes 50 Over 50.

Current boards: Maven AGI, Max Retail, Source, Replenysh, Upwards. Advisory board, Roberts Innovation Fund at Yale.

## About

- [Full bio](https://annabarber.com/about.txt): long-form factual biography
- [FAQ](https://annabarber.com/faq.txt): who Anna coaches, how engagements work, how to start
- [Home page](https://annabarber.com/): coaching, principles, writing, about

## Programs

- [Meridian Circle](https://annabarber.com/meridian): six-month facilitated peer group for accomplished women in career or life transition; six to eight women per circle; circles in New York and San Francisco, with Boston and Los Angeles starting in 2027

## Writing

- [Substack](https://annawbarber.substack.com): essays on the human side of company building
- [The Founder's Decision No One Can Make For You](https://annawbarber.substack.com/p/the-founders-decision-no-one-can): when to pivot, when to sell, when to hold on
- [Unreasonable Goals](https://annawbarber.substack.com/p/unreasonable-goals): what a first Ironman taught her about great founders
- [Run the Process, Don't Let the Process Run You](https://annawbarber.substack.com/p/run-the-process-dont-let-the-process): running a fundraise on your own terms

## Contact

- [Email](mailto:ab@annabarber.com): ab@annabarber.com
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/annawbarber)